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Selections for Navan – Mar. 29th 2023
2.15: TEDDY BOY – EW – (DANNY SHEEHY/EDDIE LYNAM) 2.50: FRENCH CLAIM (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.25: BLACK HAWK EAGLE (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 4.00: GOOLOOGONG (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.35: UNCHAINED MELODY – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 5.05: MAGI GAL – EW – (JESSICA O’GORMAN (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.35: SAVE YOUR LOVE – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY…
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Kinsella kills off the contest with stellar first half
Meath… 2-11 Carlow… 0-04 Dunshaughlin’s Ruairi Kinsella ended this Leinster U-20 FC Round 2 encounter in Ashbourne as a contest well before half time with a tremendous personal haul of 2-2. Meath were 1-06 to 0-01 up after about 15 minutes and when Kinsella took advantage of a wayward kick out to bag his second…
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Camogs head for Croker
Meath…1-09 Derry…0-10 For as long as this hack has been on the GAA ‘circuit’, Derry teams have had something of an Indian sign over Meath. The All Ireland SFC semi final of 1987 was before my time and throughout Sean Boylan’s long tenure with the county team I am fairly certain we never overcame the…
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Three changes as Carlow come to town
Injuries to goalkeeper Billy Hogan, centre back John O’Regan and wing forward Ciaran Caulfield have forced a shuffling of the decks for the Meath U-20 footballers ahead of Tuesday’s clash with Carlow at Donaghmore/Ashbourne. Ballinlough’s Oisin McDermott takes over between the posts, Conor Ennis (Ballinabrackey) replaces O’Regan and the mercurial Hughie Corcoran of Drumbarragh Emmets…
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Running to stand still… at best
Meath… 0-08 Kildare… 0-13 Before a ball was kicked in Div. 2 of this year’s Allianz NFL, the opinion was expressed in this space that survival therein might represent an achievement in itself. Now however, with the campaign concluded, that feels like an underachievement. If only due to the highly encouraging start achieved in defeating…
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It’s still in the DNA but needs sprinkling around
Meath… 2-15 Down… 2-13 What defines leadership? Of course in different aspects of life it means different things. Ukrainian President Zelenski leading his people to resist the tyranny of Putin is probably the greatest example the world has seen in generations. To take things back to more mundane sporting levels though, think of Peter Stringer’s…
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Selections for Limerick – Mar. 6th 2023
1.40: FERONLY (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 2.15: DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL (AIDAN KELLY (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: CAFE CON LECHE – EW – (JACK GILLIGAN/CHARLES BYRNES) 3.25: THEDEVILSCOACHMAN (DENIS O’REGAN/NOEL MEADE) 4.00: FROM THE ASHES (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.35: MISTY HOLLOW (JJ SLEVIN/EDDIE CAWLEY) 5.10: OSSIE’S LODGE – EW – (JOHN GLEESON/TONY MARTIN)
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Selections for Naas – Mar. 26th 2023
1.25: CAPITAL GUARANTEE (DECLAN MCDONOGH/KIERAN COTTER) 2.00: HALF NUTZ – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY (7)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 2.35: NOT TOO REAL BAD (BEN COEN/TOM MULLINS) 3.10: VOCAL STUDIES – EW – (LUKE MCATEER (3)/JIM BOLGER) 3.45: PADDINGTON (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.20: SELF BELIEF (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 4.55: RED RIDING HOOD (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.25: SERIOUS CHALLENGE…
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Closer but still not over the line
Meath…0-11 Cork…2-08 This writer has no idea where the saying ‘Close but no cigar’ originated from but at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday lunchtime it was a case of close but not over the line for the Meath as they slipped to another narrow defeat in the final round of the Lidl Ladies NFL. The…
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Four changes for final League fling
The Meath team to take on Kildare in tomorrow’s final round of the Allianz NFL shows four changes from that which lost out to Dublin last weekend. At least one of the alterations is enforced with Donal Keogan’s incredible 83-game not-out streak ended after the inspirational Rathkennny clubman was forced off with a hamstring injury…